Blog/RJ Week12

       America is the one country that allows people to express their thoughts and perhaps feelings too in the way they see the world. Editorial cartoons are the one way that people get to express themselves without being judged or getting in trouble for it, they make fun of politics, giant corporations, and almost anything that happens around the world. If we take a second to think about it, editorial cartoons play quite a large part in American culture, I mean it's satirical but educational in a sense, it gives Americans a different perspective whether it be a political cartoon and it's either democratic or republican, or most of the time they are both made fun of, but the fact that people have the freedom of speech to express themselves in such a way; really gives us (the community) a sense of relief. 

     They are a communication medium in the sense that it's a way of cartoonist expressing their ideas of how they see the world. Although everyone thinks differently, people give their own opinion on them and their perspective of what they may think the cartoon means to them. As most of us can see, by newspaper editorials or online editorials; most of these cartoons are based on politics and some can be hilarious because they have truth to them. Other are just silly, they make fun of presidents, governors, and many other situations that happen in government or around the world. But it's safe to say that we can look at these and know that the cartoonist did not "get in trouble" for coming up with such cartoon. 

    As we all must have heard, Osama Bin Laden is dead... or so they say, but people are skeptical and want to see his death certificate, I was looking up some editorial cartoons when this political cartoon came up and it has Osama Bin Laden burning in hell and the devil signing his death certificate while saying "Donald Trump is demanding to see your death certificate". Here's a link so you guys can check it out if you want  http://www.cagle.com/news/OsamabinLadenDead/main.asp